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Why is a man convicted of killing Bangladesh’s president in 1975 still living free in Canada?

As the sun pierces the horizon to reveal a distant Toronto skyline, a fit-looking man in his 70s emerges on his third-floor condominium balcony. He’s come out to tend an expansive collection of flowers and plants that crowd his terrace, making it difficult to get a clear view of his face.

This low-rise condo building is unremarkable, one of several fanning out across a leafy west Toronto suburb.

So is the man carefully looking after his plants in the early autumn light. He is wearing a blue button-up shirt and jeans fastened neatly with a belt. His greying hair has receded since he was last photographed publicly nearly three decades ago.

This guy’s story crops up in the media every few years, why he’s protected is anyone’s guess.

by Blazingcatfur•November 21, 2023November 21, 2023•0•Bangladesh, Canada, WTF?

Pakistan’s Genocide

The genocide committed by Pakistan needs immediate recognition.

“According to Bangladesh Government estimates 3 million people were killed, over two-hundred thousand women were sexually and physically violated, and 10 million people were forced to cross the border into India, leaving behind their ancestral homes and worldly possessions just to save their lives and dignity of their women,” wrote Stichting BASUG (Bangladesh Support Group), a non-governmental organization, together with other Bangladeshi diaspora organizations to the United Nations Secretary General on May 29.

by Blazingcatfur•June 30, 2023June 30, 2023•0•Bangladesh, Pakistan

US blogger’s Islamist killers escape on motorbikes from Bangladeshi court

Men on death row for murder of secular writer snatched by bikers who sprayed police with chemical

Two Islamist militants who were on death row in Bangladesh for the killing of a US blogger critical of fundamentalist Islam have made a dramatic escape on motorbikes while being escorted to a court hearing in the capital, Dhaka.

The two men were among those convicted of the murder of, an American-Bangladeshi writer and blogger who was hacked to death with machetes in the streets of Dhaka in 2015.

Roy, who was a prolific writer on secularism and had criticised religious extremism in his widely read blog, had faced death threats before his killing. His wife was severely injured in the attack.

by Blazingcatfur•November 22, 2022November 21, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Bangladesh, Islam, Islam and violence

If we’re playing the blame game, what about Pakistan’s butchery of the Bangladeshis?

LAST Sunday the BBC reported the increasingly violent sectarian clashes between Hindus and Muslims in Leicester, sparked by the result of a cricket match some weeks ago on another continent. With exquisite timing, a Sunday Times article by Sarfraz Manzoor told us that ‘Now is the time to acknowledge our empire’s sins’. He was prompted to write it after seeing the play Silence on the day our Queen died. It’s about the bloodletting which resulted ‘from the tragedy of [Indian] partition – a mayhem made in Britain’. But this carnage was by no means caused by ‘our empire’.

by Blazingcatfur•September 24, 2022September 24, 2022•0•Bangladesh, Pakistan

Bangladesh Avijit Roy murder: Five Mohammedans sentenced to die for machete attack on secular blogger

A court in Bangladesh has sentenced five men to death and one to life in jail for hacking a secular blogger to death six years ago in Dhaka.

Avijit Roy, based in the US and of Bangladeshi origin, was attacked with machetes as he left a book fair in the capital in February 2015.

It was one of a spate of attacks on secular figures, which were blamed on Islamist militants.

Roy, an atheist, had angered hardliners with his writings on religion.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2021February 16, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Bangladesh, Islam, Islam and violence